Ask HN: I have 3 years of family dinner audio recordings; what to do with it?

#1

Post by douge1 » Fri, Dec 30, 2022, 3:17 AM UTC

I’ve been stashing away audio recordings at dinner time with my family for 3 years and it’s fun to go back to like a journal fo hear what we talked about, what are some ideas for what you would do if you had this?

Re: Ask HN: I have 3 years of family dinner audio recordings; what to do with it?

#2

Post by tmpburning » Fri, Dec 30, 2022, 3:22 AM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: I have 3 years of family dinner audio recordings; what to do with it?

#3

Post by rogerkirkness » Fri, Dec 30, 2022, 3:32 AM UTC

Put it in Whisper, get transcripts, then add search on top of it.

Re: Ask HN: I have 3 years of family dinner audio recordings; what to do with it?

#4

Post by greggarious » Fri, Dec 30, 2022, 3:50 AM UTC

Check that you didn't commit many, many felonies?

https://www.rcfp.org/wp-content/uploads/imported/RECORDING.p...

Re: Ask HN: I have 3 years of family dinner audio recordings; what to do with it?

#5

Post by timoteostewart » Fri, Dec 30, 2022, 8:37 AM UTC

rogerkirkness wrote: post #3

Put it in Whisper, get transcripts, then add search on top of it.

Convenient link:

https://github.com/openai/whisper

Re: Ask HN: I have 3 years of family dinner audio recordings; what to do with it?

#6

Post by douge1 » Fri, Dec 30, 2022, 12:05 PM UTC

timoteostewart wrote: post #5

rogerkirkness wrote: post #3

Put it in Whisper, get transcripts, then add search on top of it.

Convenient link: https://github.com/openai/whisper

Cool. I’ve give this a shot.

Re: Ask HN: I have 3 years of family dinner audio recordings; what to do with it?

#7

Post by douge1 » Fri, Dec 30, 2022, 12:06 PM UTC

greggarious wrote: post #4

Check that you didn't commit many, many felonies? https://www.rcfp.org/wp-content/uploads/imported/RECORDING.p...

True. This is at home with family. Maybe I’ll get them to sign a contract. Haha. Good point to look at this.

Re: Ask HN: I have 3 years of family dinner audio recordings; what to do with it?

#8

Post by orzig » Fri, Dec 30, 2022, 12:47 PM UTC

Once you have made it text, TF/IDF for themes. Depending on your AWS familiarity, you can use some out of the box pre-trained algorithms for a pretty low price

Re: Ask HN: I have 3 years of family dinner audio recordings; what to do with it?

#9

Post by greggarious » Fri, Dec 30, 2022, 3:24 PM UTC

douge1 wrote: post #7

greggarious wrote: post #4

Check that you didn't commit many, many felonies? https://www.rcfp.org/wp-content/uploads/imported/RECORDING.p...

True. This is at home with family. Maybe I’ll get them to sign a contract. Haha. Good point to look at this.

I have a whole talk about exceptions to PA’s 2 party consent laws if you’re interested, and Appalachian

:-)

Re: Ask HN: I have 3 years of family dinner audio recordings; what to do with it?

#10

Post by orzig » Sat, Dec 31, 2022, 8:16 PM UTC

orzig wrote: post #8

Once you have made it text, TF/IDF for themes. Depending on your AWS familiarity, you can use some out of the box pre-trained algorithms for a pretty low price

Here's a detailed example that can probably be done on your own machine: https://www.kaggle.com/code/maksimeren/covid-19-literature-c...

For an API, I should definitely mention HuggingFace too! https://huggingface.co/docs/api-inference/index